GNU bug report logs - #6007
locale sort ordering confusion

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Vito Di Blas" <vito.diblas <at> libero.it>

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:45:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 6007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
Cc: 6007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6007: en_US sorting is completely stupid.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:16:04 +0200

"Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org> writes:

> Who's the "power" here anyway?

You are, actually.  Everyone can define locales to behave the way he
likes, see localedef(1).

> From the name "en_US" one might guess that it represents the behavior
> expected by English-speaking users in or from the US. But those users
> have lived with computers for a generation or two. What they expect is
> ASCIIbetical.

Nowadays most people don't know what ASCII is.

Andreas.

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